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I'm not so sure about that. I engineer 5000 HP engines with some 40,000 ft-lb torque that are hooked to solid CF shafts in marine propulsion applications. A plethora of aerospace and high performance auto applications of pure CF exists.
If you are nitpicking the technicalities of how its made, fine but there are plenty of knives using pure CF in a general sense. They work great. Certainly pure CF vs. the CF G10 laminate on the GB and Domino is what the discussion is about. The US and Japanese CF is pure CF.
I was thinking similar things...
I have mountain bikes that have frames, cranks, handlebars, seatpost, rims, etc, that are all carbon fiber with carefully engineered weave lay ups to optimize strength, stiffness, and compliance, with no metal structure or alloy lugs or anything except bearing surfaces and threaded areas.
I also just put a carbon fiber driveshaft onto one of my cars.